On 3/27/07, Johan Compagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ok that is fixed.
But i will give up currently on the YUI Calendar because it really doesn't
play nice for me
with Localization and my own dateformats.
The calendar should work 2 way (if i change the input field itself and then
popup the calendar that change should be noticed)
that is what i pretty much have working now for the English locale the big
problem is the how to do that with YUI?
Its impossible it seems because you can't call a simple method or set a
property where you set the dateformat.
If i read this correctly:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/calendar/germany/1.html
then it seems you can only configure this by setting all kinds of
properties, this is horrible because then we have to
parse the format complete and set those properties based on what we find.
(and translate it all!)
YUI has a constructor based mechanism too. DatePicker uses that; see
configureWidgetProperties.
But I actually think their property based approach is pretty good, as
it is more flexible and more readable than a constructor based
approach. And as we're writing a component on top of it, why would you
care? Just abstract it.
And yes, the translation still has to be done. The old datepicker had
translations, though they were poorly maintained (like the whole
widget was).
It is such a shame that this kind of calendar is again in LGPL:
http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/js_calendar/js_calendar.html
Looking quickly at the code is exactly what i want:
displayCalendar(document.forms[0].theDate,'yyyy/mm/dd',this)
you set the dateformat directly in the displayCalendar call.. Thats how it
supposed to work
But it probably not nearly as flexible, and I like both the look and
feel of the YUI calendar much better, like I like it better than the
old one.
Also what sucks a bit for the YUI calendar is that it is very hard to switch
quickly over the years.
(what if i use it for a birthday selection that can be something between
1960 and 1990, that horrible in that calendar)
So i guess i have to use the old calendar we had, that was much better
suited for us but if anybody
knows a calendar like the one above that is not (L)GPL but a apache
compatible one please let me know.
Seems to be a hard one to get right. I've investigated quite a few and
YUI was and is the only one I really like for both the look and feel
and the API. It's also one of the few libraries you can pretty much
count on on being maintained, which was a problem for jscalendar and
probably for just about 80% of Javascript widgets out there.
Hard to please everyone though, so sure, if you prefer the older one,
go for it. Or you can keep working on the proper abstractions so that
everything you don't like about it is hidden in our component(s).
Eelco
